Whether to bring house down is immoral dilemma

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Armstrong had been convinced he could avoid being exposedLucas Jackson/Reuters

Jeremy WhittleCommentary

Last updated at 9:24PM, January 16 2013

A few months ago, when Travis Tygart, the head of the United States
Anti-Doping Agency (Usada), offered Lance Armstrong the chance to come clean
with at least a semblance of dignity, the Texan remained convinced that he
could avoid the humiliation of being exposed as a fraud.

Armstrong still believed that he was an “Untouchable”, that the painstakingly
gathered testimonies and affidavits would come to nothing, that ranks would
close around him, that he could rebut his critics as embittered losers, just
as he always had done.

How the landscape has changed. These final hours before Armstrong’s reluctant
“confession” to